World-famous Jodrell Bank observatory loses its funding and will close in months after 70 years sparking fury among scientists by Joshua Haining, Daily Mail
from investigative journalist Charlotte Gill on X:
Meanwhile, taxpayers have been charged for these projects under the UKRI:
The Europe that Gay Porn Built, 1945–2000 — £841,830
Perverse Collections: Building Europe’s Queer and Trans Archives — £136,909
Decolonising the Museum: Digital Repatriation of the Gaidinliu Collection — £805,769
Trans Performance Now: Glitching cisgenderism — £185,627
Trans Archiving Network (TAN) — £23,556
Diverse alarums: centering marginalised communities in early modern plays — £805,745
(De)colonial Ecologies in 21st-century insular Hispanic Caribbean film — £205,543
Transnational Anti-Gender Movements and Resistance — £35,285
Comics and Race in Latin America — £759,293
Listening to the 85%: underwater sounds and environmental awareness on the Isle of Man — £81,635
Sports media and identity: a theory-practice network — £24,292
Decolonizing South East Asian Sound Archives — £123,470
Everything Is Connected: Conspiracy Theories in the Age of the Internet — £786,083
MAUSI Net: Menopause Activism in the UK, Sweden and India — £29,956
Decolonising the Page: The Visual Politics and Poetics of Postcolonial Arabic Publications — £200,462
The Tipuna Project: Intergenerational Healing, Settler Accountability and Decolonising Participatory Action Research — £310,724
Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1830s to the Present — £802,442
The Cultural Legacies of the British Empire: Classical Music’s Colonial History (1750–1900) — £1,183,769
South African Modernism (Follow-on Funding): Decolonising English Literary Studies — £80,192
The Future of Indigenous Rights and Responsibilities — £307,021
More from Charlotte Gill: The UKRI won’t pay for the Jodrell Bank telescope, but here are 50 projects it can afford!